Next to the assumption of power was the responsibility of relinquishing it.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

It's the people who seem weak who are always suprisingly strong, and the ones who seem strong who are unexpectledly weak.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

I'm ashamed that Congress finds billions for pork-barrel subsidies but fails to find money for veterans' health care.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.